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Like most businesses today are you challenged with rapidly changing market conditions and customer demands? Are you dealing with rapidly evolving technology trends that create both new business opportunities and new competitive threats while having to focus more and more on IT budgets and spending?

OpenStack can help. OpenStack software provides an open source cloud computing solution that gives your business an IT infrastructure with the agility, speed, and cost savings it needs to meet these challenges and take full advantage of new market opportunities. OpenStack is the ideal private cloud platform to help transform your data center. It delivers the next level of efficiency and innovation without the risks of vendor lock-in and high costs often associated with proprietary platforms.

Open source cloud operating system

OpenStack software is an open source cloud operating system that controls pools of compute, storage, and networking resources across a data center. Backed by the widest, most innovative and vibrant industry support, it gives you both a feature-rich and future-proofed cloud investment. As a result, it’s the perfect platform for building your private cloud infrastructure.

SUSE is a founding member and platinum sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation. SUSE was also the first to release a commercially supported enterprise OpenStack cloud distribution. Since then, we have been delivering the best OpenStack private cloud solution for today’s enterprises.

Successful companies are running production on OpenStack

OpenStack software is fully mature. In fact, many of the world’s most successful global companies are now running their production environments on OpenStack cloud software—and its market presence continues to grow rapidly.

What’s more, OpenStack has now become a compatibility standard for the private cloud market. In the report “OpenStack is ready—are you?” Forrester Research provides guidance to help you evaluate where and how OpenStack cloud can deliver the best benefits to your business. The report discusses best practices and common pitfalls to avoid when adopting OpenStack.